WASHINGTON (AP) β Transit officials in Washington D.C. who were asked to post an ad featuring a cartoon of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad have suspended all issue-oriented advertisements on the region’s rail and bus system.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s board of directors voted Thursday to suspend issue-oriented ads until the end of the year.
They didn’t say why. But Pamela Geller, whose group sponsored this month’s Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas, says she submitted an ad featuring the winning cartoon to Metro about two weeks ago. She says it depicts Muhammad raising a sword and saying “you can’t draw me” over a caption that says “support free speech.”
Two would-be terrorists ambushed officers outside the Texas event and were killed.
But Geller calls the transit officials “cowards” for not being willing to run the ad and said “rewarding terror with submission is defeat.”
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